Sentences with phrase «make life or death»

But there are a few subsets of dogs for whom a foster home can literally make a life or death difference, beyond just the availability of space.
How do Veterinarians make life or death decisions for animals who can't speak for themselves?
Should people have free will to make life or death decisions?
What personal strain might be caused when these personnel have to make life or death decisions?
Omnicorp has robots policing the entire world, but can't deploy in America as Americans don't trust robots to make life or death decisions.
Labour's Paul Flynn asks if Fox is «a fit person» to make life or death decisions for our troops in Afghanistan.
Items like car seats and appropriate bedding can make a life or death difference to a child.
That's the whole transhumanist argument — that we all make life or death decisions all the time and most of us choose life.
What are the moral issues people must consider when making life or death decisions?
Many owners reach the point in their pets» lives where they are faced with making life or death decisions for their pets.
Death doesn't scare me as much as making a life or death decision for a living creature, but I have to remember that it's not about me.

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The series of hearings will determine whether he faces life in prison or the death penalty, a decision to be made after family and friends testify to judge and jury about their interactions with the mystery man.
«It's their body and it can make a life - or - death difference.»
Not only does it mean a better user experience — it can make the difference between life and death when it comes to trading on NASDAQ, or even a high stakes game of League of Legends.
The U.S. Marines are trained to make split - second decisions based on incomplete information, in life - or - death situations.
Cover Story The U.S. Marines are looking for the few, the proud — people who can scale walls, strike hard with lightning speed, and make life - or - death decisions in the heat of battle.
Alternatively, if you're healthy and have a long life expectancy, or if you want to make sure your spouse receives the highest monthly payment after your death, delaying might be the best choice.
We are making this, like I said, a life - or - death issue.»
No business is made in a vacuum, and the way you interact with clients, employees, coworkers and other entrepreneurs can give your business life or bring it to its death.
The Herald coverage of the WR AGM said Jean's characterized the WR's struggle with the NDP as a life or death battle for Alberta but put a different spin on the WR's battle with the PCs — it was «a principled check on a wayward dynasty» and urged the WR to make the PCs feel welcome.
If you want to keep people focused on your religion as a unifying set of moral and practical codes to live by, make attendence to religious services and taking the day off work to attend mandatory or else it is a sin punishable by death.
THEY ARE PEOPLE, and have a right to make their own choices, bad or good, let God decide after death if they lived a good life, not some cleric?
Well, it's because no religious value, rule, law, tenet, or bit of dogma EVER trumps this nation's laws and we all agree on that, otherwise you might as well make the sleazy pope President and let the Ayatollah Khomeni be Vice President and we will live under religious sharia law with death for anyone who speaks blasphemy or who «dishonors» any religious figure whether real or not.
In its brief history the Jewish state has more than once had to make life - or - death decisions, and the Oslo agreement, whether necessary or not, is one of them.
The trend of modern thought, with its concentration upon making the most of this present life and the tacit assumption that death means extinction, makes it particularly easy for people to disbelieve in, or to ridicule, life after death.
while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.
Thereby the living power of the transcendent and omnipotent Judge is transposed in human experience into the dead body of Satan, as Milton's passage through the death of selfhood unveils the ground of an isolated selfhood as that chasm separating the creature from the Creator, thus making possible the reversal or dissolution of natural virtue and self - righteousness in the immediate and present actualization of the self - annihilation of God.
society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.
Now no Lutheran in adequate possession of his church's teaching will suppose that he has the right to play God, to make life - and - death decisions for himself or others.
I agree with your over all statement that we as individual Moslims are responsible for making sure we are portrayed accurately but I will tell you that against such a orginized movement that is a task as difficult as parting of the sea or giving life to a death body.
So believing in Jesus Christ for eternal life WITHOUT walking in love, making a difference, helping others, etc, is meaningless, unless of coarse you are on your death bed or are physically unable to «labor».
The day there's a death certificate issued, or a life insurance payment made, or a funeral service held for a fetus is the day that a fetus is equal to a born human.
It bothers me that after Whitney Houston's death, the government still refuses to make it mandatory for black people to wear life jackets while showering or taking a bath.How many more blacks will you allow to perish before you take action?
We would need to place greater importance on our role as bringers of life or death in the human order by the decisions we make.
Unless the discussion in the preceding pages has entirely failed to make its point, it will be plain that what is being proposed in this book is (as I have said) a «de-mythologizing» of the inherited notions of «life after death», with their (to many of us) impossible assertions; and also the «re-mythologizing» — or better, the re-conceiving — of their implicit intention so that we may have a valid way of affirming the value and worth of human existence, its significance and importance for God, and its preservation in God as a reality which has affected the divine life and in God has acquired an enduring quality which nothing can take away.
It makes us sound ignorant and really we should be thinking about all of those who are lost their live in the incident or serving as troops I'm not saying that Osama's death is bad, because personally I am quite happy about this, but we didn't act the right way about his death.
14:8), and since the Lord has made his mercy and grace known in Jesus Christ, those who believe in his love know that nothing in life or death can separate them from him.
Although this is not the place to discuss at greater length the nature of evil, human sin, suffering, death and the relationship between them, they must find mention here for they constitute the chief problems which continually confront man and make him question whether there is any justice or meaning to be found in life.
Um, we are not the ones claiming to know who made the universe & that we have a direct line to the creator and expect to live on in some fanciful cloudy heaven for eternity after death because we said a few hail mary's or donated to our Church.
Please ask yourself: If all the historical, scientific, and prophetic statements in the Bible are true and accurate, then what about what the Bible says about your having eternal life (or death) and about the choices you make (or do not make) now that can affect your eternal future?
If hope is to be sustained, or revived, the world must reveal itself to be not only a place which was initially made to be a good thing; it must be a place in which there is revival of life, or resurrection, making it clear that death does not have the last say.
Shrinking from the idea of an entirely disembodied spirit, Baillie thought of death as a transition to another kind of life, of which we have no knowledge, but which is nevertheless to be conceived as «embodied life».62 Yet he makes little or no use of the idiom of resurrection to describe it.
Hence in this chapter we must leave metaphysical certainties and venture forth tentatively, sketching possible alternatives about which no final decisions can be made, exploring the bases of hope, first for ourselves, as grounded in the possible survival after death, and / or in the ongoing life of God, and then our hope for the future of the world.
For instance, one may plan sympathetically for the welfare of others long after his death through such actions as making a will or buying life insurance, and he may enjoy these actions; but he does them not just for his own enjoyment but also for the future recipients of the blessings of his benevolence.11 However, Hartshorne maintains that such universally common altruistic actions can only be fully comprehended rationally by appeal to God as superhuman mind who ultimately unites all persons and entities in his infinite awareness and memory.
One of the strongest arguments in recent years for abolishing the death penalty has arisen, not from the moral prohibition against the taking of life, but from the fact that with rare exceptions those who are executed are people who lack the means to secure good legal assistance, or lack the educational background to make full use of such assistance, or lack the social status which brings the case to public attention.11
When death comes, appraisal must also be made in the same way, for the total pattern of a given human life, made up as it is of a particular «routing» of occasions bound together in the fashion we indicated earlier, has also contributed, or failed to contribute, in its very totality, to the creative advance in good.
God did not make or create death and destruction, but did allow for their possibility when He created life and gave freedom to His creation.
Each makes a choice in life either to listen to salvation and follow the path of righteousness or make the choice that condemns that person not only to a life that is not fulfilled but also one in death is lived in torture.
Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz
Gil if we only received one blessing in this life and that was eternal life in Jesus Christ that alone would be enough but we are blessed way more than that because we have been sent his holy spirit to help us overcome our old nature.He never leaves us nor forsakes us whether good or bad happens he strengthens us in our weakness.It says in the bible that the rain falls on both the righteous or the wicked God is fair to all whether they deserve it or not he can not be anything else than a holy righteous loving and fair God.I do nt need to convince you to believe about God he will reveal himself to you if you are seeking the truth as he is the truth.I do nt try and make others believe its pointless.I know without a doubt that i am saved and my sins are forgiven.As a christian it will a joy to be with the Lord there is no fear in death for those that love him.In the meantime i serve him with all my heart until he calls me home.I love talking about the Lord but each of us must walk according to what we believe.I trust my life to Jesus Christ and i choose to follow him who do you follow?
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